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Today, global thought is in crisis. Geopolitical tensions are fraught, international governance has failed to meaningfully prevent grave humanitarian and climate-related crisis, reactionary and populist powers are on the ascendance, and ethnic, racist and gender-based violence has only entrenched itself across many geographies. The decoupling between the rhetoric and ‘representative’ actions of States and their publics has never been more polarised. Theory and praxis are … Read more

In our ‘About’ page, we attempt our own working definition of ‘global thought’: For us, global thought does not denote a specific discipline or tradition of intellectual inquiry. Rather, we understand Global Thought to be about:  This is not a proscriptive list of thought’s characteristics, properties or possibilities; rather, it articulates the conditions of possibility for thought to be global, and in what ways. Understood in this broad way, … Read more